Well, i will note that it wasn't intentional in their character design. "Big Eaters" was already a "type of character" of HBP and Warner Bro's shows, but the combination of Shaggy being styled after a beatnik, not a hippie, and beatniks weren't known much for heavy drug use. It just so happens that as time went on, people started to connect dots that weren't intentionally put there. Beatnik is similar to hippie, shaggy loves food, he must be a stoner! But really he was just a peace-loving teen with a bottomless stomach, as was scooby.

However in the newer movies, shaggy and scoob are stoner-stereotypes, because new age directors love destroying beautiful things.

Well, my personal biggest defense for them not being stoner-types is because in "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" made by the same studio company, and the original creators, Scooby and Shaggy still have the Big Eater trait. Yet none of the other "stoner" traits. They are just kids with big apetites, and that carries over into their teen years.

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